Care guide for Weight Gain Tips for Athletes. Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.
We conducted a prospective analysis within the Nurses' Health Study to examine the associations of weight gain and loss, both since age 18 years and since menopause, with postmenopausal breast cancer risk. Methods In 1976, 121 700 female, married, registered nurses, ages 30 to 55 years, were...
First, we calculated weekly weight gain from 18±2 to 36±2 weeks gestation as the difference in weight measured at 36±2 weeks and 18±2 weeks divided by the number of weeks between the measurements. Second, we calculated total 18-week weight gain from 18±2 to 36±2 weeks gestation ...
The US female obesity prevalence was 40% in 2013-2014.9 More than 50% of obese pregnant women gained gestational weight greater than the IOM gestational weight gain recommendations in a US study that collected data from 2002 through 2008.10 The purpose of this review and meta-analysis was to...
A 55-Year-Old Female with Schizophrenia, Weight GainA recent review of eight double blind, placebo-controlled trials concluded that metformin may attenuate weight gain in patients taking second-generation antipsychotics.6 Most of these trials, however, were short (12 to 16 weeks) and the dosage ...
More- over, the single best predictor of a growth spurt among males was the abdominal to suprailiac ratio at the onset of a week, Figure 1. Saltatory length growth spurts (top) and significant weight gain (middle) are nonrandomly coincident (bottom) in this female infant over 56 wk from ...
Women with epilepsy often suffer from weight gain. A similar phenomenon is seen in female rats that are kindled from the amygdala. Interestingly, it has been reported that kindling of the left amygdala causes more weight gain than kindling of the right amygdala. The present study was designed ...
Overall, patients had a significant change in weight, defined as at least 5% weight gain, over the course of treatment (p < 0.001); however, this weight gain occurred after 2 months of treatment. In the patients with weights at all three time points, end-of-treatment weight was ...
More than 50% of the women had a desire to be slim, and 16% were actually on a diet during the first trimester. Self-efficacy had no correlation to low gestational weight gain, whereas gestational weight gain of lt;10 kg was correlated with low birth weight infant (p lt;0.025) and ...
Halting weight gains at the overweight or class 1 obese level might therefore maintain the relative health advantage of black women. However, at approximately 1 kg/y, the mean rate of premenopausal weight gain among black women outpaces the rates among women in other racial or ethnic groups.21...